Re: monitor blanking randomly
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:02 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>
> also sprach Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> [2006.06.27.1111 +0200]:
> > Sounds like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2859 , i.e. the
> > accelerator stealing too much bandwidth from the display controller to
> > keep up the signal.
>
> Except this is with the tdfx driver, not radeon.
Sure, but I assume 3Dfx cards also need memory bandwidth to do stuff. :)
> Also, I cannot find a solution in the thread, so there is none?
The solution is to reduce the bandwidth used, e.g. by lowering the
display timings, throttling the accelerator or tweaking the card's
memory controller, if possible.
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